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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

GeriPal

And it culminated in him giving a bad light to the patient in the hospital room because that was the only semblance of normalcy for this patient. And so the key there is, of course these were prospectively measured where patients were called every month from 1998 through actually the present day among those who are still alive.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

Bill 16:55 First of all, I just have to go back to Dax, because Dax in 1973 is when I first came out here as a senior medical student and met Al Johnson. So elderly people who aspirated, got pneumonia, had an mi, didn’t get hauled off to the emergency room on an ambulance crew so they could die in the ER.